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Orion Nebula (M42/NGC 1976) and Running Man Nebula (Sh2-279)
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Location: Cholla Cactus Garden, Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA (Bortle 4)
Date: January 28, 2022
Moon: Waning Crescent (12%)
Camera: ZWO ASI6200MC Pro
Telescope: William Optics ZenithStar 61II APO f/5.9
Flattener/Reducer: William Optics FLAT61A Field Flattener
Filter: Astronomik L2 UV-IR Blocking 2”
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120MM Mini
Guide Scope: William Optics UniGuide 32 f/3.75
Controller: ZWO ASIAIR Pro
Battery: Jackery Portable Power Station Explorer 300
Camera Settings: Gain 100 | f/5.9 | 10 sec, 30 sec, 180 sec
20 x 10 sec = 3 min 20 sec
20 x 30 sec = 10 min
10 x 180 sec = 30 min
Integration Time: 43 min 20 sec
Software: PixInsight, Topaz Labs Denoise AI, Adobe Lightroom Classic
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The Veil Nebula Complex - (NGC 6960, NGC 6992, NGC 6974), 09/25/2021
I went to Ahsahka Idaho again last weekend but this time I just brought my small “travel” setup. This is just an astro-modified Canon DSLR, a 200mm lens and a star tracking mount. This system is definitely smaller, lighter and easier to travel with, but it is a bit more difficult to use and does not give the same results. But I enjoyed the challenge and had fun playing with it. I was able to spend one night capturing this region of the sky.
This is the Veil Nebula Complex. It is the remains of a Supernova that exploded between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago in the Cygnus Loop. This Complex covers an area of sky 36 times the area of the full moon.
Equipment:
Tamron 70-200mm
Canon T3i (Astro modified)
Sky Watcher Star Adventurer
ZWO Asiair
Astronomik CLS-CCD Filter
Details:
Location – Ahsahka Idaho
Bortle Class 3
ISO 3200
100 120-second Lights (3.33hr total)
10 Darks
10 Bias
Astro Pixel Processor
StarNet++
Lightroom
Photoshop
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Psychic TV (PTV3) @ Sala Apolo, Primavera Sound, Barcelona, 2016.05.30
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PLACE: Moccasin Lake, Winston, Georgia
INSTRUMENT: 14 Inch (36 cm) Meade LX200 SCT
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Nov. 7, 2004
Moccasin Lake, Winston, GA
14 inch f/10 SCT Meade LX200
SBIG ST-2002 ccd camera
30 sec subs, 18 frame
exposure 9 minutes
Cygnus
PK 080-6.1 = Egg Nebula
21 02.3 +36 42 (J2000.0)
30"x15"
14.0 mag; ---- mag CS
Type PPN
3,000 light years
Uranometria 2000.0 Map 47R
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PLACE: Sossusvlei Desert Lodge, Namibia, Africa
INSTRUMENT: 12 Inch (30 cm) Meade LX200 SCT
FOCAL RATIO: f/6.3
ACCESSORIES: Meade 0.63x reducer
MOUNT: Meade Altazimut
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The "Cave Nebula", in the centre of this image, is a popular name for Sh2-155, an emission nebula in the constellation Cepheus. It appears cave-like due to a dark, hollowed-out area surrounded by a bright, ionized gas rim, which is an active star-forming region (H II region). Located approximately 2,400 to 3,000 light-years away, it is part of a larger star-forming complex called Cepheus B.
The blue area of nebulosity to the upper left of the cave is the reflection nebula vdb155.
2200 years ago, when the photons of light left this nebula to reach us, the Earth was definitely another place. The cosmic time machine, the telescope, this time was pointed towards the constellation Cygnus, more precisely towards Sh2-119. Gas and dust envelop the main star, 68-Cygni being mostly responsible for the ionization of the gas around it. This ionization makes the gases all colored at different wavelengths, from blue to green, passing through all shades of brown and orange. The dark nebula filaments above contrast strongly with both the glow of the nebula and the rich field full of stars in the background. These filaments are clouds containing mostly gas (hydrogen and helium) and a minimal fraction of dust (about 1%), responsible for the appearance of the cloud. These dusts, although minimal, absorb the light, making the nebula completely dark. Sh2-119 is a celestial signature of an ancient explosion that released gas and dust into the universe, forming new stars and planets. The silk effect of the nebula makes us think of a white colored pillow in a bed of stars, but, among that dust, stars and planets are forming in the most violent and destructive processes.
The photo is the sum of 26 hours of exposures. Below some technical data:
Imaging Telescopes: Tecnosky 300 F3.4 Fast Newton
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI6200MM Pro
Mount: iOptron CEM120
Lights:
Chroma H-alpha 3nm Bandpass 50 mm: 38×900″(9h 30′)
Chroma OIII 3nm Bandpass 50 mm: 35×900″(8h 45′)
Chroma SII 3nm Bandpass 50 mm: 28×900″(7h)
Psychic TV (PTV3) @ Sala Apolo, Primavera Sound, Barcelona, 2016.05.30
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The Geminid meteor shower as seen under Bortle 4 skies
Details:
Background
-The background is one continuous 6.5 minute picture shot as f8 + 400 iso
Orion/star background (39 minute integration)
-Stock Canon Rebel T7 on Star Adventurer Pro
-14mm Rokinon lens at f/4.0, ISO 800 and 39 minute-long exposures stacked in Siril along with calibration frames (50 bias, 20 flats and 20 dark frames)
-Total integration time of 39 minutes
-Final stacked image histogram stretched in Photoshop
-Black and white filter applied
--Lowered contrast
Meteor pictures (90 minute integration)
-Stock Canon Rebel T7 on Star Adventurer Pro
-14mm Rokinon lens at f/2.8, ISO 3200 and about 500 10-second exposures
-After collection, I manually went through every picture and noted the ones that had meteors
-Overlaid meteor shots on background layer, masked, inverted and lightened the meteors
Lying 25 million light years from Earth, Messier 101 is a spiral disk of stars, dust and gas about 170,000 light years across, which is nearly twice the diameter of our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The spiral arms contain large regions of star-forming nebulas. Imaged from the back garden in Colchester, my picture contains almost 600 x 20" exposures at ISO 1600, on a modified Nikon D750 DSLR, Sky-Watcher Explorer 150p, EQ5 Pro, via Stellarmate in Kstars/Ekos. Stacked in AstroPixelProcessor, cropped and adjusted in Photoshop and Lightroom.
The fuzzball in the lower centre is Messier 87 or NGC 4486, an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo that is believed to contain several trillion stars. Strikingly it has a jet of plasma streaming out from its core, which you can just make out in my image. M87 also has a massive black hole in its centre - famously pictured by the Event Horizon Telescope team in 2021. My picture was imaged in the back garden in Colchester on a ZWO ASI585MC camera, with the light coming from a Sky-Watcher Explorer 150P telescope through Baader MPCC III coma corrector and ZWO UV/IR cut filter. I stacked the best 70% of 160 x 20" exposures at Gain 300 in Astro Pixel Processor and tweaked it in Photoshop and Lightroom.
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INSTRUMENT: 14 Inch (36 cm) Meade LX200 SCT
FOCAL RATIO: f/6.3
ACCESSORIES: Meade 0.63x reducer
MOUNT: Orion HDX110 EQ-G
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Orion Constellation and Orion Nebula (M42). The Flame Nebula can also faintly be seen above Alnitak (leftmost star in Orion's belt).
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-Canon Rebel T
7 on a fixed tripod
-18-55mm kit lens @f/3.5, ISO 800 and 130 six-second exposures stacked in Deep Sky Stacker along with calibration frames (50 bias, 30 dark, and 30 flat frames)
-Total integration time of 13 minutes
-Final stacked image histogram stretched, light-pollution gradient subtracted and color-corrected in Photoshop and Lightroom
IC 1396 - Elephant's Trunk Nebula.
293 x 120sec Lights
20 darks
ASI2600MC Pro -10 100 Gain
ASIAIr Pro
Skywatcher Star Adventurer GTi
Optonlong L-Pro Filter
Williams Optics RedCat51
Processed in PixInsight
Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, M31, NGC 224) is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth. It is approximately 220,000 light years across, and it is the largest galaxy of the Local Group.
Olympus 150mm 5.6 (40-150mm f/4-5.6)
Sky-Watcher HEQ5
Olympus E-PM2
25x60s @ ISO800 (25min)
Calibrated, registered, stacked in DeepSkyStacker.
Postprocessing in PS5.
Present Perfect 2020 @ St.Petersburg, Russia
Nina Kraviz, Shadowax (Mirabella Karyanova - Ishome), PTU, Nocow, Philipp Gorbachev, Mujuice, Moa Pillar, Flaty, Kedr Livanskiy, Sofia Rodina, Kate NV, ГШ, Vladimir Dubyshkin, Buttechno, Simple Symmetry, Errortica, Kovyazin D, Полиритм, Void Of Gene
This little gem - Messier 57 or NGC 6720 - is a planetary nebula in the constellation Lyra. "Planetary" is a misnomer based on early astronomers' misunderstandings of what such objects were. It is actually ionized gases shed from a star late in its life. Cropped from an image captured on an ASI585MC camera attached to my Sky-Watcher Explorer 150P in Colchester UK, with a ZWO UV/IR cut filter and Baader MPCC III coma corrector, on an EQ5 Pro mount, unguided. I shot 300 x 20" exposures at Gain 300, but a lot of them were useless because of passing clouds overnight. Here are the best stacked in Astro Pixel Processor and tweaked in Lightroom.
Pacman Nebula (NGC281)
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8 hours of data, the largest file I've started to work on. I feel like I'm managing to deal with the finer details now, just need to control where I've blown out the core of the nebula.
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Askar 71f at 490mm
ZWO ASI533MC
Optolong L-eNhance filter
Processed in Siril, GraXpert and Ps
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Double open cluster - h and χ Persei
Olympus 150mm 6.3 (40-150mm f/4-5.6)
Sky-Watcher HEQ5
Olympus E-PM2
34x60s @ ISO6400 (34min)
Calibrated, registered, stacked in PixInsight.
Postprocessing in PS5.
Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888), 08/04/2020
This is the Crescent Nebula, an emission nebula in the constellation of Cygnus. It is about 5000 light-years from earth, that is pretty close all things considered. Do you see that bright star in the middle of the nebula? That star is energizing the gas that was blown off into space when the star became a red giant. This left behind gas, absorbs the star light and then emits its own faint light that my camera is able to see.
Equipment:
RASA 8
CGEM-dx mount
ZWO ASI294MC-Pro
ZWO Asiair Pro
Optolong L-eHhance filter
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Location – My back yard in Tacoma WA
Bortle Class 8
Gain 120
43 300-second Lights
60 Darks
60 Bias
60 Flats
Astro Pixel Processor
Lightroom
Photoshop
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Psychic TV (PTV3) @ Sala Apolo, Primavera Sound, Barcelona, 2016.05.30
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PLACE: Moccasin Lake, Winston, Georgia
INSTRUMENT: 14 Inch (36 cm) Meade LX200 SCT
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ACCESSORIES: Meade 0.63x reducer
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CAMERA: SBIG ST-1001 ccd
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Mar. 4, 2005
Moccasin Lake, Winston, GA
14 inch SCT Meade LX200
SBIG ST-2002 ccd camera
10 sec subs, 39 frames
exposure 6 minutes 30 seconds
Processed with MaxIm DL
Gemini
PN G197.8+17.3
07 29.2 +20 55 (J2000.0)
47"x43"
9.2 mag; 10.4 mag CS
Type 3b+3b
2,900 light years
Uranometria 2000.0 Map 75R
Cave Nebula, also known as Sh2-155 or Caldwell 9 is a huge emission nebula located in the constellation of Cepheus. The Cave itself is the dark arcuate object in the center surrounded by the red emission nebula. It has about 14 light years in diameter and is part of a much bigger cloud of gas and dust, which lies at a distance of 2740 light years.
I captured this image in September through a borrowed telescope Vixen 81S with my modified camera Canon EOS 1300D. It is my first attempt at taking emission nebulae through the telescope, not a lens, and I am pretty happy with it. There is much more detail than it would be through the common lens.
Canon EOS 1300D (modified), SVBony CLS filter
Vixen 81S, EQ-5 mount
EXIF: 48x120sec (1 hour 36 minutes in total), ISO 6400
Darks, flats, biases
Processed in DSS, Siril, StarNet++ and Photoshop
15/09/2023, Mašov, Czech Republic (Bortle 5)
The Lagoon and Trifid Nebulas under Bortle 4 skies.
Details:
-Stock Canon Rebel T7 on Star Adventurer
-135mm Rokinon lens @f/2, ISO 1600 and 25 minute-long exposures stacked in Deep Sky Stacker along with calibration frames (25 bias, 15 flats and no dark frames)
-Total integration time of 25 minutes
-Final stacked image histogram stretched and color-corrected in Photoshop
-Starnet++ used to separate and color-correct star clouds and nebulae in photoshop, final result was merged with stars
I've decided to take more photos, and stack them.
So, this is my result by 131 x 2,5 sec light frames and 15 dark frames.
10" Newton
Canon 60D
20 x 400s
Alccd5l-llc (Guiding)
After two weeks of testing and tuning my new 10" Newton this is my first picture with it.
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Psychic TV (PTV3) @ Sala Apolo, Primavera Sound, Barcelona, 2016.05.30
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Soul Nebula (IC 1848)
The Soul Nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia.
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Location: Montclair, California, USA (Bortle 8)
Date: January 4-5, 2022
Moon: Waxing Crescent (8-14%)
Camera: ZWO ASI6200MC Pro
Telescope: William Optics ZenithStar 61II APO f/5.9
Flattener/Reducer: William Optics FLAT61A Field Flattener
Filter: Optolong L-eXtreme 2”
Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro
Guide Camera: ZWO ASI120MM Mini
Guide Scope: William Optics UniGuide 32 f/3.75
Camera Settings: Gain 100 | f/5.9 | 5 min
Acquisition: 53 x 5 min Lights | 50 Darks | 100 Bias | 20 Flats
Integration Time: 4 hrs 25 min
Software: ZWO ASIAIR PRO, PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom Classic
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Copyright © 2022 Steven K. Wu Photography. All Rights Reserved.
The Sombrero Galaxy (M104), 04/18/2021
Like I said in my last photo, its galaxy season, lol. A few weeks ago, I took my gear up into the woods and was able to capture lots of images while in the dark skis. I have always wanted to photography this galaxy, but it is really small and far away (31 million light-year), but I did it anyways. This picture is cropped in a lot. The Sombrero Galaxy is almost perfectly edge on to our field of view, so the dust lanes really pop. It also contains one of the biggest super-massive black holes ever discovered.
Equipment:
RASA 8
iOptron GEM45
ZWO ASI294MC-Pro
ZWO Asiair
Optolong L-Pro filter
Details:
Location – Long Mire Campground
Bortle Class 2
167 30-second Lights (1.4 hrs.)
60 Darks
60 Dark flats
60 Flats
Astro Pixel Processor
Lightroom
Photoshop
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